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    I am running an old game from Matrix Games War in the Pacific on a Lenovo i9 running Windows 11 24H2with a GEFORCE 4060 and an external monitor. It will run fine if the desktop is not extended, but duplicated or if I put the game window on the laptop screen with the desktop extended. However, if I move the window to the external monitor with the desktop extended, then the game becomes completely non-responsive clicking any where on the window contents produces no response until I move the window back to the laptop monitor where it will once again run as normal. I have tried using all av

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